Tourism and hospitality internship experiences overseas: A British perspective

Busby, Graham; Gibson, Philip

doi:10.3794/johlste.91.244

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“…As mentioned above, the Cooperative Education program is a relationship where the industry shares human resources with university students, while universities share developing talent with industry. Within realistic practice prior to official employment, students get the chance to preview the real operation of the industry to get a glimpse of the real working condition and to test whether the industry is the right fit (Busby & Gibson, 2010). Additionally stated by Roberts (2003), by participating in Cooperative Education Programs, the knowledge level enhances when the learning content links with the real-life situation.…”

Section: Benefits For Studentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…With regards to job placement within the industry, most organizations would like to choose a trusted individual or partner instead of an unknown individual recruited from a huge labor market. Busby and Gibson (2010) described a phenomenon in which hotels prefer to recruit the candidates from the same university, especially when previous hires received promotions to key positions.…”

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Hospitality Cooperative Education: What are the Benefits for Industry Partners?

Wang¹

2018

Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Education

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Section: Benefits For Industry Partnersmentioning

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Hospitality Cooperative Education: What are the Benefits for Industry Partners?

Wang¹

2018

Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Education

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“…Internship serves such an important role to help hospitality students who aspire to seek a career in this industry equip pertinent competence and knowledge through first hand experiences (Lee, Huh, & Jones, 2016). Disregard many advantages mentioned above, how to take care of intern students has become a challenging issue to hospitality teachers and emerging social media has been considered as one possible solution (Busby & Gibson, 2010;Sobaih & Moustafa, 2016). The unique functionality of social media can connect teachers and students in virtual community (Lan, Gou, & Xi, 2011).…”

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“…Having a well-designed internship program will be a great advantage to attract prospective students to attend (Yiu & Law, 2012;Busby & Gibson, 2010). To answer this call, the industry and educators should go hand in hand to ensure that students are able to receive fruitful experience in internship and will be willing to enter the industry upon their graduation (Richardson, 2008).…”

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Mind the Gap: Exploring Hospitality Teachers’ and Student Interns’ Perception of Using Virtual Communities for Maintaining Connectedness in Internship

Hsu¹

2017

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Considerable attention has been given to the relationship between internship and hospitality education and positive results have been extracted. More and more hospitality programs worldwide emphasize the necessity of internship; nevertheless, intern students always considered the lack of support from academic staff as a major challenges for teachers to overcome and virtual community can be exploited as a venue to provide such assistance. The present study surveyed 230 teachers and 660 intern students of hospitality programs in Taiwan and discovered significant differences existed between hospitality teachers and their intern students in terms of their perception about satisfaction, sense of belonging as well as effectiveness of using virtual communities to maintain the connectedness among the teacher and students. When two major social media are compared when being exploited as the platforms for interactions, again, significant differences were discovered with respect to the participants' satisfaction, sense of belong and effectiveness of using Facebook, Line and two of them. Scheffe's Post-hoc further reported that participants' satisfaction with Line was greater than Facebook and their sense of belonging toward the class and effectiveness were stronger when Facebook and Line were used at the same time. Limitations and recommendations for future research are also included in the end of this manuscript.

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“…Internships as experiential learning tools are an important component of hospitality and tourism management (HTM) education (Busby & Gibson, 2010). Internships have many benefits for stakeholders involved in the service industries, and they provide an opportunity for students to learn more about their chosen vocation with real-world experience.…”

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Internship Design and Its Impact on Student Satisfaction and Intrinsic Motivation

Stansbie

Nash

Jack

2013

Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Education

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This study examines the role that experiential education, in the form of internships, plays in the professional development of hospitality and tourism management students. In particular, it analyzes the internship through an evaluation of job design by both applying J. R. Hackman and G. R. job characteristics model and developing a proposed intern version of that model. The outcomes demonstrate that dimensions of work undertaken during the internship contribute significantly to an individual's satisfaction and intrinsic motivation. A comparison of the 2 models demonstrates that the proposed intern model offers improved R 2 coefficients over the original job characteristics model by using different predictive variables and thus may be seen as a better guide for designing effective internship experiences.

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Tourism and hospitality internship experiences overseas: A British perspective

Cited by 63 publications

References 24 publications

Hospitality Cooperative Education: What are the Benefits for Industry Partners?

Hospitality Cooperative Education: What are the Benefits for Industry Partners?

Mind the Gap: Exploring Hospitality Teachers’ and Student Interns’ Perception of Using Virtual Communities for Maintaining Connectedness in Internship

Internship Design and Its Impact on Student Satisfaction and Intrinsic Motivation

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